François Gaspard & Boris Wilmot

Sine

Come onto the stage to learn, step by step, how to create your own electronic music!

Sine is an audiovisual lecture-performance that, from both a physicist’s and a musician’s perspective, explores how electronic music producers design sound and compose music. Starting with a simple sine wave, this experience playfully and interactively delves into the physics of sound, synthesis, and electronic music production.

The performance begins with a sine wave to demonstrate how, by adding, filtering, and manipulating these waves, we can create the three essential sounds of electronic music: the kick, snare, and hi-hat. Then, the show takes on a more musical tone, inviting you to participate in a Guitar Hero-style game to apply effects and contribute to the collective creation of a final musical composition.

Created by François Gaspard, engineer and musician, and Boris Wilmot, graphic designer and digital artist, Sine offers a unique opportunity to discover, play with, and understand electronic music in a new light.

Friday 29/11:

  • 19:00 – 20:00

Saturday 30/11 – Sine, 2 performances scheduled as follows:

  • 14:00 – 15:00
  • 16:00 – 17:00

Sunday 1/12:

  • 16:00 – 17:00

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Ohme & Roméo Poirier

Tales of Entropy

Ohme and Roméo Poirier present Tales of Entropy, an audiovisual performance that combines live polarised light microscopy, computer vision and generative music.

A stage-mounted microscope scans through organic samples, revealing transitional states of matter and its fluctuating patterns, which are projected live on stage. Roméo Poirier receives different signals from the live analysis of the images and transforms them into a sensitive musical exploration of the structures of organic matter, merging analog and digital tools.

The music of performance aims at reflecting the contrasts and the textures of the different samples, oscillating between atmospheric landscapes, heavily processed vocal samples, warm orchestral fragments, thunderstorms and passing shadows of dissonance.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Frederik Vanhoutte & Philippe Braquenier

Isocenter

“Isocenter” de Frederik Vanhoutte : when medical technology becomes art

Isocenter is a research project by artist Frederik Vanhoutte based on his work as a radiotherapy physicist at the University Hospital in Gent (BE). Isocenter seeks to explore the apparent paradox inherent in modern medicine – a fusion of individualised, compassionate care with the cutting-edge precision of technology, all aimed at healing and preserving the sanctity of life. Drawing from the choreography made by the radiotherapy machine during the treatments, Frederik shift the medium to using a plotter drawing machine with ink on paper. Treatment is replaced by expression, radiation delivery machine replaced by a mechanical drawing device. Care and art, two very human activities, envisioned by people, entrusted to machines.

Lisa Krämer Ruggiu

Tattoo salon: ink out of space

Get yourself a temporary science tattoo straight from outer space during Space Night at CurieuCity! Scientists from the VUB have created a unique collection of tattoo designs inspired by cosmogeochemistry, meteorites, and asteroids. Let yourself be inked with cosmic creativity, and explore actual meteorites and micrometeorites under the microscope.

Julie de Saedeleer / Inforsciences

Origami

“Origami”, the folding of paper, is not only an art, but also a rigorous way of solving mathematical questions left unanswered by the classical analytical or geometrical route. The aim of this workshop is to show young people that they can literally “do math with their hands”. Starting with simple folding, in the form of modular origami, we tackle Platonic polyhedra, Euclidean geometry, as well as non-Euclidean geometries (elliptical and hyperbolic), to arrive at practical applications in fields such as space, military and road safety.

Discover our pre-festival project Origami here.

Experimentarium Physique/Chimie - ULB & Inforsciences

Espace & Vous

In recent years, sending people into space has become increasingly commonplace. But sometimes you’re sent to a space station, and you don’t know when you’ll be able to come back down. On stage, three actors try to come up with solutions to help astronauts stuck on the International Space Station. Using whatever means available, they experiment and explain some of the basic principles that make these journeys possible.

Duration of the spectacle: 30 min

Start Time: 13h30 , 14h30

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Sophie van Eck

Pourquoi le Ciel est Bleu ?

In this workshop, we’ll try to understand why, when there are no clouds, the sky is blue. But is it really blue, or do our eyes just see it as blue? We’ll also find out why the setting sun is red.

Planetarium de Bruxelles / Sophie van Eck

Les Etoiles, Alchimistes de l’Univers

In this VR show, we’ll travel from the inside of a cell phone to the farthest reaches of the Universe, to understand how the chemical elements that make it up were made at the heart of different types of stars. From the Big Bang to red giant stars, from supernovae to kilonovae, we’ll discover these astonishing stars that are the true alchemists of the universe.

The Rubberbodies Collective

One More Drop

How much can a person contain? Working in a laboratory day in and day out. Between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organising blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from a distance. Strange reflections, desires and visions leak into the regulated routines of a bloodless environment made of seemingly hermetic walls and vessels.

With One More Drop, Ira Melkonyan and Jimmy Grima continue their research into the performativity of liquids from a transnational feminist perspective, venturing into what is probably the most metaphorically loaded bodily fluid. Centring blood and other biological substances as performative agents, this transdisciplinary performance explores fantasy and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political borders and a sense of connection.

  • Friday 29 nov. 19:00 – 19:45.
  • Saturday 30 nov. 19:00 – 19:45, followed by an After Talk with Ira Melkonayn, led by Arshia Ali Azmat from 20:00 – 20:40

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

The Rubberbodies Collective

One More Drop

How much can a person contain? Working in a laboratory day in and day out. Between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organising blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from a distance.

This installation is the backdrop for the performance with the same title. The artworks centre blood as a performative agent and explore fantasy and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political borders and a sense of connection.